Author Archives: John Kador

Recent studies suggest that bringing women up through the ranks to senior leadership positions has a direct impact on corporate performance. Recent research shows: Companies with the highest percentages of women on their board of directors outperformed by 53 percent those with the least on return on equity, and by 66 percent on return on investment. (Catalyst) Hedge funds managed ...

Your customer is changing—and you may not even know it. The Nielsen Company estimates that almost all income growth in the U.S. over the past 15-20 years is generated by women exercising their growing economic influence.

In the fifth of a six-part series on boosting personal effectiveness, Chief Executive explores the realm of CEO blogging. Blogging can be an informal communication channel and encourage positive employee engagement. Is blogging right for you?

As a supplement to The View from Social Media: Should CEOs Have Personal Blogs?, here are some additional articles on effective blogging for CEOs: Chief Executive’s Top Ten CEO Blogs The Risks of CEO Blogging Do’s and Don’ts for CEO bloggers Checklist: Is Blogging Right For You?

If you can answer “Yes” to four or more of the following questions, chances are you will enjoy and succeed at blogging. Do you enjoy writing and have a knack for it? If it’s a burden to write a staff announcement, blogging is probably not for you. Y/N _____ Are you a thought leader? Do you write articles, publish op-ed ...

Do Authentically share insight and information. Encourage and support feedback. Take responsibility for developing readership. Invest the time in thoughtfully reflecting on blog topics. Post at least once a week. Don’t Outsource the writing task. Your own voice is critical. Be self-serving. Avoid corporate-speak. Be too formal. Abuse the trust of customers, employees or readers. Be boring.

The risks of CEO blogging are low but ever-present. Here are some of the potential downsides: Compliance. There is always the risk of saying something inadvertent that will create problems. Competition. It’s easy to predict who will be the most loyal readers of a CEO’s blog: the competition. They will pick the blog apart for clues on new products, company ...

A small but growing number of CEOs have decided it's a good investment of time to share their thoughts about the trends and issues they face, questions that bewilder them, and sometimes even their personal lives. Here is a list of the top 10 CEO blogs you might want to follow.

When Alan Mulally took the stage at the New York Stock Exchange to accept Chief Executive's 2011 CEO of the Year Award, he had many stories from his time at Ford. In this anecdote, he discusses how he diagnosed Ford's problems and started to work to turn the company around.

What attributes make a great, rather than merely good, CMO? Egon Zehnder International, a global leader in the recruitment and appraisal of senior management executives, has conducted over 25,000 assessments of senior marketers to answer that question. It turns out that there are two key attributes have the highest impact on outstanding CMO performance: orientation towards results and change leadership. ...